"You just you kind of start to think you're going crazy."
As part of our extended look at Crohn's disease, we're speaking with Alannah Campbell, who had to wait nearly a decade for her diagnosis.
This week we are taking a special look at Crohn's Disease - an inflammatory bowel condition which effects more than 26,000 people in Scotland.
As part of this we are speaking to Scots living with Crohn's.
Alannah Campbell, from Inverness, first began experiencing serious symptoms in her late-teens, but it wasn't until nearly a decade later she was finally given a diagnosis.
She told us: " It was similar symptoms throughout, just kind of stomach cramps and like frequency going to the toilet and urgency and that kind of thing.
" I just couldn't eat anything, no matter how bland it was, and went to the doctor's then had all the tests and nothing was coming back.
"It's kind of just limbo for for ages. You just start to think you're going crazy. Because you know, there's something wrong with you, you know your own body. But obviously the doctor's telling you that like there's nothing wrong."
Now 28, it wasn't until the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 that Alannah was given her Crohn's diagnosis, so the pandemic ultimately would complicate things - meaning only now a decade on from first experiencing symptoms is she starting to get a handle on her condition.
Like many others with Crohn's, initially Alannah's prognosis was IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome).
But her condition kept getting more serious, with Alannah saying:
"'I'd gone to A&E one day, something had come back in my bloods and my doctor had sent me up to A&E.
"One of the doctors there had said, it could be colitis (Another form of bowel disease). And I was like, I don't know what any of that is.
"So I sat in my hospital bed googling. So it was kind of thrown about maybe five, six years before I was diagnosed, and I literally fitted every single symptom. So I have no idea why it took so long to be picked up."
Asked about what being diagnosed earlier would have done for her, Alannah told us:
"You'd find a medication a lot sooner or it would give you a chance to try new medications.
"Just like the mental health aspect of it as well. You think you're crazy for so long. Because you think there is something wrong with me, I know there is, but obviously doctors are telling you that there isn't so definitely that would have had a big impact."
Alannah feels as though making both the general public and medical professionals more aware of Crohn's disease could help to try and tackle these issues.
"I feel like a lot of people just think Crohn's is like, you just go to the toilet a million times a day, but there's so much more to it. I definitely don't think there's enough awareness, around what it is or just how debilitating it can be."
You can find out more about the symptoms of Crohn's disease here.